Quote Originally Posted by Reinz View Post
If you rest your double lamp directly on that top and it is touching that plastic cross member it may get melted some.

The good thing about the stand is you will be able to hover your lamp over the screen without touching the plastic.

Here's a tip if you don't want to be spending money on bulbs every 1-3 months:

Buy a 100 or 150 watt bulb and hook it up to dimmer. Use a temp gun to dial in the proper heat 88-90. Went done right your dimmer will be turned down to roughly 50-60% power.

This keeps your bulb filiament from getting too hot and burning out.

I have done this for over 2 years on 4 tanks and have yet to replace a bulb. And these bulbs run 24/7.


My Exo- Terra tank on the left

Thank you! So do you think that if I hover the lamps over, if some of the light still hits the plastic it shouldn't melt? Since it's not RIGHT up against?

Right now, since I jammed it into one of the quadrants, the only part touching the plastic is the outside lip of the lap, and it seems to be OK, although I only have 40watt bulbs in there right now, since the 75w seemed to heat it up too much without a dimmer on it. But I just received my dimmer so now I can probably put the higher watt back in and just turn it down some -- especially at night. During the day, the 40w is actually perfect by itself, it's only really night time that it gets too cool. Too cool with the 40watt, but heats up too much with the 75w... it's so frustrating